TV crew uncovers 2,000-year-old murder mystery during shoot at ancient British settlement

Archaeologists uncovered a 2,000-year-old execution enigma portion filming a tv amusement successful the United Kingdom — 1 that raises much questions than answers.

Bournemouth University announced the discovery, which progressive Channel 4 big Sandi Toksvig, successful precocious October. The excavation was portion of a caller bid called "Sandi Toksvig’s Hidden Wonders."

Toksvig, who studied archaeology astatine the University of Cambridge, joined the archaeological excavation centered astir a 2,000-year-old Iron Age colony successful Dorset.

The colony belonged to the Durotriges, a people that lived successful agrarian Dorset earlier the Roman conquest. 

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Archaeologists successful Dorset unearthed a 2,000-year-old Iron Age burial tract portion filming a Channel 4 documentary with Sandi Toksvig. (Bournemouth University)

At the site, archaeologists uncovered artifacts from regular beingness successful Iron Age Britain, including bronze brooches, a bony comb and a bangle made of bronze.

Then, during filming, the squad was amazed to find a skeleton buried look down successful a pit — a teenage miss who was apt murdered arsenic portion of a quality sacrifice.

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Most skeletons astatine the tract were cautiously placed successful ceremonial burials with sedate goods, typically pots oregon brooches.

The girl's assemblage was tangled and face-down with nary specified offerings, a stark opposition to the different burials successful the settlement.

The girl's assemblage was recovered look down and tangled, dissimilar the ceremonial burials discovered nearby. (Bournemouth University)

In the Bournemouth University release, excavation person Miles Russell said that the squad was "particularly shocked to perceive that this could person been a quality sacrifice."

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"It was evident from Sandi's ain involvement successful archaeology that she was profoundly moved by what had been uncovered," the researcher added.

Speaking to Fox News Digital, Russell said that the information the miss was buried face-down "does suggest marked disrespect."

Archaeologists recovered a assortment of artifacts astatine the past settlement, on with the teenager's skeleton. (Bournemouth University)

He added that the information of the teen's musculus attachments and intervertebral discs suggests that she performed hard manual labour and lifted dense weights passim her life.

"This seems to bespeak that the pit burials were astatine the little extremity of society, perchance representing the enslaved oregon prisoners of war," Russell noted.

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The unfortunate besides had an unhealed wrist fracture, which suggests she was defending herself astatine the clip of her death. 

Her wrists appeared to person been tied arsenic well, which indicates "sacrifice, oregon astatine slightest deliberate execution," Russell said.

"This seems to bespeak that the pit burials were astatine the little extremity of society, perchance representing the enslaved oregon prisoners of war," Russell said. (Bournemouth University)

"It's truly a lawsuit of archaeological grounds supporting the Roman presumption that, not lone did quality sacrifice hap successful Iron Age, pre-Roman Britain, but that it happened a lot," the archaeologist concluded.

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"What we're trying to bash present is to ascertain who the victims were, regarding presumption and position, and wherefore they were selected for specified a fate, efficaciously giving backmost their voice."